It really anoys me how almost every alt has "coin" on the end, its majorly overused. I dont mind silk, but im not super fond of it either. I think we need a 1 word name that doesnt have coin in it, like nxt, monero, ripple, quark etc. A name is a first impression, and having coin on the end just makes it seem like its another stupid alt. We need to set ourselves apart from the shitcoins.
I feel like the word coin should be dropped. If you simply call it Silk, I think it could work well. Especially considering the implications that silk used to be a commodity people would use for goods exchange centuries ago. Agreed. |
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I'm sorry I wasn't able to organize everyone's tasks theyve either taken on or expressed interest in into a composed message for BTT yet - but will get on it tomorrow.. Unless of course someone else can pull that info from Trello before then, organize it and post it here!  For now to see who is working on what check out The Grand Bazaar! And don't forget to make your vote here for rebranding debate. If there is a name you think you want added, please post and I will add it to the poll. I have added IP voting - so one vote per IP, geographical mapping, I have a geographical map in the account of where votes originated from, and have paid to have ads removed from poll. I have also created a container, so this poll is able to be embedded in a website. Also has java scripting capabilites, so if someone knows java please let me know and I can give you the poll site password to help make this poll better. http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=53b09f5ce4b0d5f2a7af9a52Current votes are: Silkcoin 33% The Grand Bazaar - Ecosystem 33% Silk 33% SilkCrypto 0% P2P Bazaar - Ecosystem 0% Silk Exchange - Ecosytem 0% Phenocoin 0% FairSilk - Ecosystem 0% |
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A user uses the verify message feature of the client to verify they own a wallet address. Once verified, the wallet balance is checked on the block chain. Users can add multiple addresses and it totals them up.
Very cool. Are you on Trello? We would love to have you come contribute to the rebuild and discuss converting this to a Silkcoin theme. I think this is very good idea. We have been looking for a solution for how to publicly manage the direction of this endeavor. I do like the idea of coins being the vote weight in silk (as opposed to gold) - but would there also be some way to have a public vote factored into this for folks that don't have a lot of money. I would not want to see someone's vote count less if they have only 1000 bux to their name and have invested half of it in silk, in comparison to someone with a bank account with 100 grand and 10k in silk. (50% invested interest in comparison to 10% invested interest) Just a thought about general equality in voting and surely will be difficult to achieve the proper balance. How would you know how much total worth a person has? My idea was simply, if you hold 5% of all the coins, you get a 5% vote. I'm new on Trello, figuring it out. Kinda thinking that perhaps public poll might be worth 30% of total vote whereas weighted or owned coins would consist of 70% of the vote or something similar. |
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If we change the name will the silkcoins we've purchased still have value? Yes of course. The blockchain and qt would remain the same. |
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I want to gamble with other people at the Grand Bazaar. Oh, and I'm glad MEGAman changed his slogan Damn strait! I also look forward to gambling at the Grand Bazaar!  |
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I've made a poll on easy polls regarding the rebranding debate. Here's your chance to vote for what you think is best! http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=53b09f5ce4b0d5f2a7af9a52I have added IP voting - so one vote per IP, geographical mapping, I have a geographical map in the account of where votes originated from, and have paid to have ads removed from poll. I have also created a container, so this poll is able to be embedded in a website. Also has java scripting capabilites, so if someone knows java please let me know and I can give you the poll site password to help make this poll better. |
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I know I'm a hated man but just wanted to say I did donate a bit of BTC to bholzer for the cause (against his will haha). I'm a really bad designer but have solid php skills so I'm working on a project to help the soon-to-be-new-and-improved silkcoin. When I'm done I'll have somebody else help make it look pretty. Also bholzer finally responded to my PM and it sounds like he has 2 different versions of the wallet about ready to go and he's going to finish up tests tonight and release one. Maybe you guys already knew that since I missed a couple pages. Anyway not sure why he made two but I will assume he knows what he's doing.
Dude I think the hatred has subsided, and I know you and judge contributed to bholzer to get the client updated. I think it would be good for you to join trello if you like! Post your trello id and I'll add ya. If there is a backlash then I think you'd have to be removed, but Ive seen you support this revival and are an active contributor so I think you should be involved! |
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I am in... My day job is web development, writing, SEO, etc... been at it for almost 2 decades. Let me know
if I can help.
Cheers!
Cynthia
Awesome! Sign up at The Grand Bazaar and I will add your trello id to the forum. This is me: https://trello.com/bitcoin_mafiaAdded! |
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I'm in favor of putting up a poll, pick a few people to delegate & make final decisions where there is clear conflict. In the least we need someone putting up polls. They are simple to do until the website comes out and we can just poll there. https://www.surveymonkey.com https://www.easypolls.net/Yes we do need to arrange whos going on board with the team, we need bholzers input on this too, hopefully we will hear from him tomorrow. I've taken a look at www.easypolls.net - they have a 1 vote per ip feature, as well as a geographical map of where each vote originates from. Costs 99cents per poll to add these features. I do not mind setting this up, if everyone is in agreement. Seems a simple way to vote on topics at hand for the time being. Let me know what everyone thinks and I'll set it up. |
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A user uses the verify message feature of the client to verify they own a wallet address. Once verified, the wallet balance is checked on the block chain. Users can add multiple addresses and it totals them up.
Very cool. Are you on Trello? We would love to have you come contribute to the rebuild and discuss converting this to a Silkcoin theme. I think this is very good idea. We have been looking for a solution for how to publicly manage the direction of this endeavor. I do like the idea of coins being the vote weight in silk (as opposed to gold) - but would there also be some way to have a public vote factored into this for folks that don't have a lot of money. I would not want to see someone's vote count less if they have only 1000 bux to their name and have invested half of it in silk, in comparison to someone with a bank account with 100 grand and 10k in silk. (50% invested interest in comparison to 10% invested interest) Just a thought about general equality in voting and surely will be difficult to achieve the proper balance. |
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Anybody else interested in helping out with this movement, please sign up at The Grand Bazaar, and pm me your trello ID. [/quote] |
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I am in... My day job is web development, writing, SEO, etc... been at it for almost 2 decades. Let me know
if I can help.
Cheers!
Cynthia
Awesome! Sign up at The Grand Bazaar and I will add your trello id to the forum. |
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Although I strongly disagreed with it, the community is overwhelming in favor of keeping the name Silk in. So in that light, its got my support. Its great that we can have this sort of debate, say what we have to say and then move on. @arteleis has actually been doing a hell of a lot. Keeping a bunch of people all shouting different opinions organised in trello and feeding it off the board here is really important. - and he's kept a propper adult attitude with things while others have been shouting him down. Thanks arteleis! Any rate, thanks for all the positive notes on Pheno, its appreciated. In moving forward someone here here needs to call the name...lots of variations of Silk out there so we need a decision. I think we've either got to set-up some polls about a lot of things or just poll once to decide on a few interim decision makers. We need some decisions and not only about the name, problem is the moment someone makes a decision its likely only to piss others off and we'll end-up with the "who put you in charge?" type statements flying all about the room. I'm in favor of putting up a poll, pick a few people to delegate & make final decisions where there is clear conflict. In the least we need someone putting up polls. They are simple to do until the website comes out and we can just poll there. https://www.surveymonkey.com https://www.easypolls.net/Who's Acting Director? Lead Dev seems to be settled - bholzer Lead Marketer (Website Text, Social Media, Name and Branding decisions)? Lead accountant - seems to be settled ( Badass handling the escrow ) We've all got to have our say now its time to get some decisions and move this forward. I'm happy to design another logo once the name has been sorted unless someone else wants to do so. I am going to go rogue here and say I'm happy to have Arteleis delegate some of this work until we get a poll up...whether he wants to or not Cheers all Hello all, wow I slept for 8 hours and about 90 posts in trello. haha going to do some catching up and try and organize the thought flow. We've got many options for voting now. I'm going to take a look at all of them. And yes, I will continue to do as I'm doing until i feel overwhelmed (in which case I'll beg for help) or the community feels I have done a shit job. As I said in the first thread, this is the first community I've felt at home at, and am glad to contribute what I can to make it a success. Will give a recap from trello board here in BTT. The amount of information is becoming overwhelming, and in saying that it seems that the development team being built in this may not be traditional. Most coins have a development team of 1 or 3 or 5?? This coin, if organized correctly could have a task based, community managed team of unlimited amount of developers.. But if not organized correctly then of course.. for a lack of better terms, will turn into a clusterfuck. I'm loving seeing the freeflow of not only ideas, but the technical pursuit of how they actually are to be achieved. I believe it will take more then one acting director, to keep everyone organized as what is seeming to be created is not just one coin, but an organization consisting of many departments. Ill try and sum everything up and create as much order as possible for what is transpiring. |
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My idea is this, we could call the units of currency Silk or "silkcoins" but Call the ecosystem something different perhaps?
I feel Silk Crypto would be the name for the eco system including the coins, trading platform etc.
Secondly if we add extra "coloured" coins to the mix we could name those as other commodities, we could add amber, cowries and pearls to the list as other assets on the platform down the track.
IDK, just a thought anyway.
This is actually a very good idea. Keep the unit of currency the same, although the entirety of the ecosystem something different. And add coloured coins as more commodities like silk.. That's fuckin gooood. We would only then need a community name (ecosystem), and a list of proposed assets like SILK to be traded in the ecosystem. - amber, gold, diamonds, pearls etc |
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My thought are this:
If you are going to keep silk in the name, its no different than silkcoin.
I dont have an issue with SilkCoin, but SilkCrypto could be an improvement.
If we rebrand to a totally different name, we still have to explain to the newcomers that we were Silkcoin, and now have changed our name, etc, it just makes things more complicated.
Ive seen rebranding fails with big corporations before and its happening here in New Zealand with Telecom changing its name to Spark, there was a huge backlash on their facebook page.
My idea is this, we could call the units of currency Silk or "silkcoins" but Call the ecosystem something different perhaps?
I feel Silk Crypto would be the name for the eco system including the coins, trading platform etc.
Secondly if we add extra "coloured" coins to the mix we could name those as other commodities, we could add amber, cowries and pearls to the list as other assets on the platform down the track.
IDK, just a thought anyway.
Damn, I like the idea of naming other coloured coins as commodities.. that is brilliant. Yeh trying to find a common ground between some people wanting total rebrand and some wanting absolutely no change at all. My vote at this point is impartial as long as the decision can be made within a decent timeframe. |
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Great job everybody. Thank you for all your effort. We should implement as much blockchain technology as possible into the new community, economy, and eco-system like multi-sig and voting capabilities. The intrinsic value of silkcoin will be its community and working eco-system. If we build this transparent and decentralized economy people will follow, copy and learn. I really like the idea of ...setting up escrows and voting on projects is amazing. This could be a new standard in coin development....maybe each step can have its own escrow accounts. like one for 2FA and one for the bot and one for the Marketing campaign. One for the multipool. When someone completes a certain task they get the coins kinda like a bounty... My votes: Keep the name Silkcoin. Negative connotations dissipate over time. It already has name recognition and the history of its beginning (now) will make the story that much sweeter. Change ticker from SC to SILK. People will automatically start calling it Silk instead of Silkcoin without having to change the name. SLK makes me say "slick". Doesnt the "Grand Bazaar" already exist in Istanbul? I don't think the proposed eco-system needs a name. It's simply the silkcoin economy. The trello idea works great. Keep up the good work. @BrianJaye awesome work man please put this energy towards rebranding SILK Yep the Grand Bazaar does already exist. Why I chose it for the trello board. Just trying to continue the story of the camel I've been watching staking coins for so long.. Had to be heading somewhere. haha Possibly a name for the p2p exchange platform, instead of calling it ambiguous names like eco-system or p2p exchange. Grand Bazaar may not be the name but i think that maybe one should be chosen for terminology sake. For instance nxt - has AE - mastercoin - master protocol - counterparty - distributed exchange etc. Might help with branding, marketing, and general discussion for that matter. But if it exists solely inside the qt you may be correct that it doesn't need a name. As far as tickers, there are quite a few coins that have more then 3 letters. Perhaps SILK would work? Totally agree with as much blockchain technology integration as possible. Between that and the p2p exchanges, these will be the forefront of crypto evolution in technology. There seems to be a good amount of division on keeping the name and not keeping the name. For reason of what just took place, and of course, also worry about links with silk road.. these aren't personally my concerns but have been voiced consistently, and more so by senior members on BTT. Just throwing it out there as another possible rebrand idea: FairSilk. FairSilk Trade. FairSilk Community. FairSilk Economy. FairSilk Foundation. Brandable on many levels, and literally states what is happening here. After all, This is the beginning of a Digital Fair Silk Trade era. Raze me if you will.  |
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I've been a C/C++/C# developer for over 10 years and would be willing to help with rebuilding. I manage a development team full time so I would not have enough time to take the lead on this after bholzer is done, but would be willing to give as much of my time as I can.
As far as sharing my identity, I have no problem with that since I am a professional developer and have nothing to hide.
I also have a Masters Degree in Project Management from Boston University so if my assistance on the dev side is not needed, I can offer my PM skills to the community.
My Trello ID is @mbishop75
Added! Welcome! That's awesome! |
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Actually may not be a problem? Anybody seen this browser? That article is from 2011.
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